The U.S. military is rerouting the USS Nimitz carrier strike group to the Middle East ahead of schedule from the South China ...

The U.S. president insists he wants peace and claims no involvement in Israel’s military campaign against Iran. But ...

The latest Middle East conflict is a combination of events that could not be prevented and the sense that countries sometimes ...

Playing the Game In the lead-up to Israel’s devastating attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and its military leadership, Pres. Trump posed as a peacemaker ...

The two extremist members of the Netanyahu government have consistently opposed any efforts to bring peace to the region.

Donald Trump has declared himself as a “tariff person”, says Russia should never have been booted from the G7 and warned Iran ...

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Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, ...

The retaliatory strikes came on Saturday, a day after Israel killed top Iranian military leaders and scientists and destroyed ...

Both Iran and Israel have good reason to see the current conflict as existential, with few remaining mediators deemed ...

Iran has vowed to retaliate against the U.S., too, while Trump has warned: “If we are attacked in any way, shape, or form by ...